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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1988
Page
3
The Yugoslav government resigned on Friday amid mounting criticism of its economic handling. Premier Branko Mikulic and the 31-member cabinet stepped down after parliament failed to pass a key economic law, signaling liberalization in the one party system.
Isamu Noguchi, 84, the renowned American sculptor whose work spans museums, parks, gardens, furniture, lamps, stage sets, and fountains, died after a brief illness in New York. His career blended East and West aesthetics. He created monumental public works and diverse designs across media.
The Times of London reports investigators believe a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103 was loaded in Frankfurt West Germany. Luggage from Frankfurt was transferred at Heathrow into the forward cargo hold, causing the jet to explode over Lockerbie. The probe focuses on a Palestinian cell linked to Ahmed Jibril's PFLP GC operating in Frankfurt.
In Shreveport Louisiana a 3-year-old boy used the telephone for the first time to summon help for his mother Liz Pendleton 29 who was bleeding from a ruptured fallopian tube. He guided the operator to reach his father at Arkla Gas and the ambulance was dispatched. She survived after emergency surgery at Schumpert Medical Center.
The Commerce Department said its leading index fell 0.2 percent in November, the fourth drop in seven months. Analysts see a slowdown ahead for 1989 with modest inflation and slower growth, not a recession. White House spokesman Roman Popadiuk framed the data as indicating continued, slower growth and moderate inflation.
The Commission on Base Realignment and Closure proposes 145 installations with linked job shifts. The list shows expansions and contractions at bases in Alabama through Washington, including large gains at Redstone Arsenal, Pearl Harbor, Fort Hood, Fort Lewis and McChord, with many others closed or reorganized.
The government awards Unisys a five year, 15.9 million contract to run a nationwide computer bank of malpractice suits and disciplinary actions against doctors and dentists. The system, authorized by Congress in 1986, will collect reports from state licensing authorities and go live by mid summer.
A tractor-trailer rammed more than 20 cars during an 80 mile pursuit along I 10 near Comfort and I 35 near Natalia in Texas. Two people were seriously injured and Stephen Odell Dillard 41 of Coolidge Georgia was jailed on cocaine possession with a 50000 dollar bond as authorities plan additional charges in other counties. The rig carried vegetables from California to Florida before stopping at a Natalia rest area.
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